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Prof. Dr. Steven Haberman is a professor of actuarial science at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), which is part of City, University of London, UK. Between 2002 and 2015, he held several senior leadership positions within Bayes Business School, as Director from 2002 to 2012 and then Dean until 2015. Before this, he was Dean of the School of Mathematics at City from 1995 to 2002.

He graduated from the University of Cambridge, UK, with a degree in mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and obtained a Ph.D. and D.Sc. in actuarial science from City University. After two years at Prudential Assurance, he moved to City University in 1974 to take up a post as the first Lecturer in Actuarial Science. He also worked on a part-time secondment for an extended period at the Government Actuary's Department in London.

He has taught various actuarial subjects at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and successfully supervised 34 doctoral students. He has been an external examiner for Ph.D.s at the Universities of Delft, Heriot-Watt, Kings College London, Liverpool, the Sorbonne, Stockholm, and Tilburg. He has given talks at many universities, including Amsterdam, Barcelona, Brussels (ULB), Budapest, Cairo, Cologne, Delft, Haifa, Kyoto, Lisbon (UTL), Ljubljana, Lyon, Milan (Universita Cattolica), Montreal (UQAM), Naples, Parma, Rio de Janeiro (COPPEAD), Rome (La Sapienza), Salerno, Sofia, Stockholm, Tilburg, Tokyo, Trieste, Valencia, Verona, Warsaw, and York (Toronto). In 2018, the University of Haifa awarded him an honorary doctorate for his contributions to actuarial science. He is an Honorary Socio Correspondente of the Istituto Italiano degli Attuari.

He has published over 170 refereed academic papers and five co-authored books. His principal current research interests are modeling longevity and mortality trends, design of pension systems (defined benefit and defined contribution), and the optimal use of annuities. He was a Founding Editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance from 2002 to 2015 and has been a member of the Editorial Board of Risks and the Advisory Council of Decisions in Economics and Finance. He is currently a member of Legal and General's Longevity Science Panel and Chair of the Trustees of the London Foundation for Banking and Finance.

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Steven Haberman, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his views of the research area and open access publishing:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role of its Editor-in-Chief?
I have served as an Editorial Board Member of Risks for some years and have been very impressed by how the journal has developed and become increasingly influential. I was honored to have been invited to become Editor-in-Chief and to help continue the journal's success story.

2. What is your vision for the journal?
The aim is to make Risks one of the leading journals for publishing high-quality and impactful research in insurance and financial risk management. I would like to further raise the journal's profile within the academic community.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?
Insurance and financial risk management is vital for protecting the activities and savings of individuals and (private and public) institutions. The field is developing rapidly as new challenges and questions emerge, and new techniques are developed and explored. For example, we are seeing further exploration of methodologies from machine learning to help solve problems in finance, insurance, and actuarial science.

4. What do you think of the development of open access in the publishing field?
I think that open access offers a different model in the scientific publishing field than traditional journals. I think there is room for both models to flourish, and I am happy to be playing a part in that endeavor.

We wish Prof. Dr. Steven Haberman every success in his new position, and we look forward to his contributions to the journal.